What makes you think Fain will wait there for us? He will wait. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it is twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else. I am ashamed. He had taken to bathing in the small hours of the morning, when the big, tiled pools were empty of people, after he discovered that at any other time a woman might well climb into the water with him.
Harder than steel and more deadly than poison. I am here, Min said carefully, because I was sent for, and was given the choice between riding and coming tied in a sack. That way, they will know I have not answered either one yet. See also One Power.
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